Cleaning up an APR rumor
Reading the comments on the message board, many of you were afraid that if Derrick Favors becomes a one-and-done, the APR for Tech’s men’s basketball team will take another hit.
That’s not true, but there’s a catch.
Any athlete that leaves school before he graduates, and is on a pro roster next year, doesn’t count against a team’s APR…if he leaves in good academic standing.
For example, junior Gani Lawal has put his name in for the NBA draft. If he leaves Tech having completed this semester in good standing, and gets drafted or signs with a pro team, the basketball team’s APR won’t be negatively affected.
One other thing, athletics director Dan Radakovich included a note in the most recent edition of The Sting, the athletics department’s weekly newsletter, that “As a department we have become more equipped to address an monitor the structure of these NCAA academic standards…”
Tech Sports Information Director Dean Buchan said that the department isn’t reshuffling people, but it will continue to focus on the coordination needed across departments to ensure all sports exceed the NCAA’s minimum score of 925.
Heading over to tennis later today to watch some of the first-round action against jackson State.
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Hey Andrew
May 8th, 2009
4:18 pm
11-6
45-42
67-62
what next lil’ guy? what next?
why are you on a tech blog talking trash. your team can’t beat tech in a damn thing THIS YEAR.
if you want to talk about the past be my guest but most sports fans are more focused on the present. the here and now…and the here and now says your team is currently losing in every major sport to it’s rival…the same rival you’re talking trash to?!?!? what is there to say? you’ll get us next year???
Mr. Grinch
May 8th, 2009
4:29 pm
Anyone willing to tackle that “Culture” question?
GoodWord
May 8th, 2009
4:33 pm
Mr. Grinch, my guess is that it is almost a history course. Studying how Technology and Science have effected culture from different regions. I really don’t see how difficult that is to understand.
GoodWord
May 8th, 2009
4:37 pm
Question for you Mr. Grinch. I have noticed that most of the UGA football players are majoring in housing. What exactly does that mean?
Mr. Grinch
May 8th, 2009
4:38 pm
To GoodWord
It’s not difficult to understand. I’m sure if georgia offered a “Culture” major you yellow jackets would have a field day. Was just wonderin’……
Mr. Grinch
May 8th, 2009
4:40 pm
To GoodWord
Following your explanation about how “culture” should not be too difficult to understand, I would imagine housing pertains to those thingamajigs that people live in. Quoting you, “I really don’t see how difficult that is to understand”.
Andrew
May 8th, 2009
4:45 pm
so by your statements, every UGA fan should have talked the most amount of trash to a florida fan possible after our win 2 years ago? Yes, we were happy, yes we celebrated, but I didn’t talk trash to a single UF fan, because we knew our role. They have our number. Funny, we beat you guys like UF beats us…I’m not gonna say anything about basketball because we both suck and it aint worth my time. Baseball, i guess you just beat us. Problem is, if we make it farther than you like recent history, will you still be proud?
cluett peabody
May 8th, 2009
4:50 pm
m? Where are you?
I need a tgag fix.
GoodWord
May 8th, 2009
4:52 pm
Ok Grinch. What exactly do you study about a house? architectual design? Wouldn’t that be architect? Housing? Hmm…. that’s new to me. And it is not real estate because there are some athlete majoring in that, so it rules that out. Please explain more.
Mr. Grinch
May 8th, 2009
4:54 pm
To GoodWord
Thought I’d help you out based on your interest of the housing major. It’s actually Housing and Consumer Economics. Here’s the link
http://www.fcs.uga.edu/hace/undergraduate/
Mr. Grinch
May 8th, 2009
4:57 pm
To GoodWord
By the way, just how many of the yellow jacket athletes actually earn a degree in “management”. Management. Hmm…..at an engineering school. Must be your crip major. Oh yeah, that’s right, about 90% of your athletes major in it. Again, do tell how many athletes actually earn their “management” degree and to what use do they put it?
Mr. Grinch
May 8th, 2009
5:04 pm
To GoodWord.
Did a little more leg work. Here’s what I found about that challenging Science, Technology and Culture major at georgia tech, and this is directly from their website:
“PURPOSE AND SCOPE
This subject guide is intended to provide general research assistance to undergraduate and beginning researchers interested in the study of science, technology, and culture, including, but not limited to, the study of the history, philosophy, and sociology of science.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STUDIES AT GEORGIA TECH
For information on degree programs at Georgia Tech that relate to the study of science, technology, and society contact the School of History, Technology, and Society and the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture.”
Riveting, I tell you, just riveting. The history of science, the philosophy of science, and the sociolgy of science. HAHAHAHAHA. Wonder what the person who created this major was smoking. But hey, uh, yeah, I can see how this fits in beautifully at an engineering school. HAHAHAHA.
I could hardly believe my eyes. The school of of History, Technology, and Society and the School of Literature, Communication, and Culture.”
At an engineering school? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA. I can hear it now, “Phone lines are open, sign up now”….HAHAHAHAHAHA.
Student Athlete
May 8th, 2009
5:26 pm
I cannot believe what I’ve been reading. Let me see….so tech actually has an engineer on the basketball team. Wow, based on his 1.7 point scoring average, if the engineering school known as Georgia Tech actually played 9 more engineers then the team would average 17 points per game.
RAMBLE ON!!!
May 8th, 2009
5:29 pm
Mr. Grinch is still hurting from that 45-42 SMACKDOWN in his house. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
…speaking of smoking, was that Roddy Jones smoking you for another 16.9 yards?
GoodWord
May 8th, 2009
5:42 pm
Grinch, I did a little leg work myself. GT has 4 football players and 2 basketball players majoring in this Science and technology major. UGA has 22 players majoring in “housing”. Notice a difference in those numbers? Also, UGA has art majors, wildlife majors?, exercise and sports science, sports studies, and middle school education. You can’t honestly be serious, can you grinch? Come on now, tell the truth. You are just taking a piece of something and acting like the whole team is majoring in this. As you can see, you are just making crap up. Oh yeah, where is the super resourceful, HUH? with the basketball majors? It only took him 2 seconds to look up football majors. GEEZ!!
GoodWord
May 8th, 2009
5:45 pm
I guess you missed the defensive specialist discussion, huh “student athlete”? Of course, that’s what boneheads like you do. Just focus on what kind of irrelevant point you want to make. Nice math though!! I had to check you on that.
SlimG
May 8th, 2009
6:28 pm
When are you guys gonna learn about college athletics? It’s a money maker for the school, nothing more. Sure a small percentage of major sports athletes get their degree, congrats, the rest go to the welfare line along with all their relatives. Stop making this so hard to understand. As for the coaches, they could care less if the kid graduates, as long as their Pell grant is approved and they are eligible for the season it’s a win-win.
Paul Hewitt is not different that the rest. As you can tell by the displeasure with his performance over the past couple of years, that’s all that matters to the fans. Win or else. If you are not winning, people will harp on any negative. Ask yourself, if Hewitt had taken his teams to the last two Final Fours, would this be an issue? Didn’t think so………
Phoneguy
May 8th, 2009
6:57 pm
Yeah that was a real drubbing Tech put on UGA. Man I tell ya’ I just don’t know how they will ever recover from a “3 POINT LOSS”. Geez Ramble on, try to come up with something different. Tech will soon take their rightful, USUAL place…..behind UGA. Ya’ll better watch out ya know Ga State is getting a team now. Another team for ya’ll to be inferior to.
STUCK IN SC
May 8th, 2009
9:48 pm
Arrogant nerds now inferior in academics as well as sports. LMAO!
Money Money Money
May 8th, 2009
9:59 pm
Who cares what these guys majors are? The majority of them will go on to play in the CFL, Arena League or become high school coaches/PE teachers.
The point is: These guys go to UGA and Ga Tech with the hopes of one day playing in the National Football League (NFL).
Current UGA NFL players – 56
Current Ga Tech NFL Players – 28
You tell me which school is doing a better justice to these student-athletes? Go to UGA…get PAID. Go to Ga Tech…get a job as PE Teacher
BS Patrol
May 9th, 2009
2:57 am
Great posts by GoodWord! You stuffed the grinch & proved what we all know to be true.
RAMBLE ON!! YOU THE MAN!!so to speak.
Money Money, Brain of a squirrel. Don’t try to blog with real people again. Ever!
macrotech
May 9th, 2009
5:18 am
Phoneguy, it was ONLY 3 points, BUT you mutt fans are HATING that you lost. It eats at the core of all that you are. I’ve been enjoying these blogs ever since. All the crying about injuries, poor officiating and rings has proven to be MOST laughable. THIS is our year and it pains you. Rightful place? Hate to break it to you, but we DID take our rightful place by 3 points. STUCK IN SC, i’d imagine that SC is fine with you leaving….i’m sure they’ll manage without ya! Ignorant turd breathed leg humpers stuck across the river….LMAO! GO TECH!
NYJacket
May 9th, 2009
10:07 am
If UGA thinks the academic requirements for athlets are tougher at UGA than Tech, let them remain in their deam world. The narrow offering of majors at Tech has long been an impediment when reqruiting athletes. But, having said that there are plenty of athletes that are very good and are very capable of handling the rigorous academic environment at Tech. And, since very few make their living from their athlete talents, Tech does an excellent job of preparing them for life after sport.
The Grinch
May 9th, 2009
11:15 am
To Goodword
Please find ONE post where I said ALL majors at UGA are tough. Next, fine ONE post by ANY yellow jacket fan who will admit that SOME of your majors are easier and geared towards athletes.
The School of of History, Technology, and Society??
The School of Literature, Communication, and Culture????
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
The Grinch
May 9th, 2009
11:17 am
To NYJacket
If, as you say, “Tech does an excellent job of preparing them for life after sport”, then what percentage of your football and basketball STARTERS (or those that actually see meaningful playing time) actually receive their degree from tech so they can be so well prepared??
Jack G.
May 9th, 2009
2:50 pm
Now children…..Sticks and stones etc.
BS Patrol
May 9th, 2009
5:06 pm
Stated plainly & simply,
Georgia Tech is superior to GA in every single field of endeavor.
The Grinch
May 9th, 2009
6:33 pm
To BS Patrol
Your last comment proves my point. Many yellow jacket fans REFUSE to accept the fact that they are inferior, or even equal, in at least ONE area to ANYONE. Total arrogance. Looks like you found the BS in your last patrol. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
BS Patrol
May 9th, 2009
8:33 pm
Mr Grinch,
Would you be kind enough to point out the ONE of which you speak?
BS Patrol
May 9th, 2009
8:39 pm
BTW, I said GA. Not ANYONE.
BS Patrol
May 10th, 2009
10:05 am
I guess I’ve got you stumped.
BeenToUGA
May 10th, 2009
10:51 am
Grinch,
I attended and received degrees from both UGA (Physics degree) and GaTech (IE degree). There is no comparison academically between the 2 schools. It is like comparing junior high school to high school.
And the football players major in Business. GaTech’s Business school was ranked higher than the UGA Business school in the US News and World report rankings of school last year.
Go get back on your tractor.
GoodWord
May 10th, 2009
10:55 am
It’s weird to see the Grinch still trolling around two days later. I must really be in his head. Kind of like Roddy in UGA’s secondary!
PTC DAWG
May 10th, 2009
11:21 am
Both UGA and GT are very good schools. Different for sure…why can’t it just be left at that?
Neither is perfect either…that’s for sure.
I will say it’s good to have the GT fans back, congrats to them.
AlabamaRamblinwreck
May 10th, 2009
12:32 pm
Just like BeentoUGA, I have attended both schools. I graduated GT. Unless you have dealt with GT and the GT professors, you have no idea how difficult college can be. There is NO comparison. If you graduate UGA, be proud, but you probably didn’t lose years off your life doing it. At GT, if you get the degree, you have earned it and you have been very fortunate. I knew a lot of very intelligent students who were not able to make it. Not only do freshmen get a 50% weedout, there is another 25-50% weedout when you reach your junior year!! It really is the survival of the fittest. And, we can try to explain it to alumni from other schools, and they will never understand. So, why don’t we just talk sports here?
Go Jackets!!
BS Patrol
May 10th, 2009
5:56 pm
If memory serves, half my freshman class was out at year end. Chemistry got a lot of them. I personally knew one high school’s star student who went warning, probation, out of school. We laughed about Emory students having Wednesdays off while we went to class on Saturdays. You won’t see Tech ranked highly among Playboy’s party schools.
academics
May 10th, 2009
9:26 pm
Phoneguy- UGA is superior at what? You lost to us on basketball, football and baseball this year. And you are superior to us how? 45-42 HA HA HA HA HA back at ya.
The Grinch
May 10th, 2009
10:59 pm
To BS Patrol.
Speaking of getting into someone’s head. You have posted at:
2:57 AM on May 9th (AM for crying out loud??)
5:06 PM on May 9th
8:33 PM on May 9th
8:39 PM on May 9th (sounds like a lonely kind of Saturday you know?)
10:05 AM on May 10th
5:56 PM on May 10th
What’s wrong nerd, I know you can’t score with a chick but couldn’t you even score some tickets to the new Star Trek movie? HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!
The School of of History, Technology, and Society??
The School of Literature, Communication, and Culture????
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
The Grinch
May 10th, 2009
11:02 pm
To BS Patrol
By the way, smarter than everyone else, if georgia tech only accepts smart students, how the heck were half your freshman class gone by the end of your first year?
Also, why would Playboy waste their time on your campus. They’re looking for beautiful women.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
BS Patrol
May 10th, 2009
11:23 pm
Grinch,
You still are trying to avoid my question aren’t you?
The reason half were gone is because of the rigorous academics. You’re not real sharp are you?
I think you must be the idiot formerly known as Reality Yeck. Just disappear, will you?
BS Patrol
May 10th, 2009
11:31 pm
As for my blog times, one must come up for air occasionally. But you probably don’t even know what that means.
cleveland jacket
May 10th, 2009
11:32 pm
thanks for all the comments i was a Tech guy, my daughter got a GREAT education at the Dawg school. crazy to be like this why not the 2 schools against the rest of the world except for one saturday a year?
BS Patrol
May 11th, 2009
12:31 am
OMG! I have been blogging with an adolescent!
The Grinch
May 11th, 2009
7:29 am
To BS Patrol
OMG????? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! And just who’s the adolescent???
The Grinch
May 11th, 2009
8:12 am
To RAMBLE ON
By the way, I believe you have a crush on Roddy Jones. That’s all you talk about. Do you wear his jersey number and have his picture on your wall? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
The Grinch
May 11th, 2009
8:21 am
To BS Patrol
By the way, speaking of “sharp”, you better not carry anything sharp. You might puncture and deflate your girlfriend. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
To The Grinch
May 11th, 2009
9:14 am
We get it dude…YOU LIKE UGA! WE GET IT!!!!!!
DirtyDawg
May 11th, 2009
9:49 am
Hey folks, nobody’s arguing that an Engineering School doesnt’ have a tougher curriculum than the more diverse offerings of a State University – it’s the way the system works. And nobody’s – at least I’m not – saying that the typical student at Tech probably has a more stringent academic load than one at Georgia (on average). What we are saying is that you can’t have it both ways. You can’t fall back on the excuse that your academic requirements are the reason you can’t be as successful as others, and in particular UGA. Not when you get these kinds of results and yet not a single athlete has been suspended, certainly not one of significance, because of academic failures. Your athletic administrators see to that. Like taking courses in maths and sciences at Morehouse…like a player that couldn’t get out of remedial studies at UGA, transfers to Tech and ends up on the Dean’s List (wonder who did that work?)…like playing guys that, as it turns out, were actually ineligible and blame it on the former Dean of Women after the fact.
And by the way, Georgia’s academics became more stringent because of the Hope Scholarship, not Jan Kemp.
To DirtyDawg
May 11th, 2009
10:47 am
We get it…YOU LIKE UGA. Point taken. Thanks!
WTF??
May 11th, 2009
11:53 am
I do LOVE COX!!!